Wow, this is crazy, and incredibly elaborate too. I am just beginning to wrap my mind around how steemit works as an average user, I would imagine that brainstorming and organizing schemes like this could take incredible skill or hours upon hours of dedication.
In the time it would take to create such an elaborate scam, someone with this kind of knowlege could probobly create content that would be organically upvoted, but sadly people arent conditioned to work that way in this world.
Good detective work!